14-04-2026, 17:34
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Re: UK Energy Prices
The government has to frame it as something they are giving to the public.
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15-04-2026, 11:01
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Households could get free electricity for doing washing on sunny weekends.
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First the "carrot mode": cheaper or free electricity at off-peak times to push the last of the "Luddites" into having a smart meter.
Then we will see "stick" mode: peak power periods become more expensive, training us to only use power at off-peak times. And those periods will be set by the power companies.
Once again, the belief is that we all work 9 to 5 jobs, Monday to Friday, as they believed when Work From Home became a thing.
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15-04-2026, 11:35
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Re: UK Energy Prices
With a renewable grid the cheap times are set by the weather not the companies.
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15-04-2026, 11:38
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by downquark1
With a renewable grid the cheap times are set by the weather not the companies.
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So when the sun goes in and the wind drops to a whisper, we will suddenly have no cheap or free power.
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15-04-2026, 12:42
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by Taf
So when the sun goes in and the wind drops to a whisper, we will suddenly have no cheap or free power.
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Yes that's exactly how it works. I had free power over Easter because it was windy.
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https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
Just look here, the less blue you see the more likely it is to be cheap.
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15-04-2026, 17:54
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Quote:
Originally Posted by Taf
So when the sun goes in and the wind drops to a whisper, we will suddenly have no cheap or free power.
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Correct. 
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15-04-2026, 18:00
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Re: UK Energy Prices
We get 16 hours free electricity every Sunday from 8am until midnight.
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16-04-2026, 11:48
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
We get 16 hours free electricity every Sunday from 8am until midnight.
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That’s a good saving, What compan6 is that !
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16-04-2026, 16:33
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Re: UK Energy Prices
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Originally Posted by nashville
That’s a good saving, What compan6 is that !
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EDF, if you reduce your peak hous use Monday to Friday (4pm to 7pm) then you get max 16 hours free on Sunday. We're normally not here until after 7 so use very little late afternoon.
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24-04-2026, 12:47
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Octopus Prices Don’t Add Up… What’s Really Going On
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXl5DwHOvOo
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24-04-2026, 13:41
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Re: UK Energy Prices
2 minutes in to a 7 minute video and he’s still outlining the circumstances. What’s the tl:dr here - what does he think is going on? Youtube videos are such an inefficient way of commincating anything that can be summarised in a paragraph of text and a graph.
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24-04-2026, 13:49
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Clickbait
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24-04-2026, 15:26
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Re: UK Energy Prices
The longer you view the more they get that is why they waffle
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Re: UK Energy Prices
Quote:
Originally Posted by SnoopZ
I switched on March 13th and can now see daily Electricity smart meter readings in the app from March 31st, still no reading for Gas which is starting to annoy me but my bill date is April 20th so there is still time.
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Outfox have automatically taken my first Gas smart meter reading on 29 April 1.5 months after my switch, I had given up hope and was about to email them to get it sorted.
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